Search Results: Authors starting with A from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Cape Town: C. Struik, 1963). Small 4to; original pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt device to upper cover; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. (viii) + 119; plates after contemporary illustrations by Thomas Bowler. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and sunned; light browning. Very good condition. "What she tells is very interesting, especially about social customs. She writes about the 'upper-ten', the old Dutch and English families, their elegant houses, what they did and did not do, what they ate and drank, their picnic parties and their dance evenings; she also tells about the fishermen, the Malay tailors, and the whole somewhat untidy but colourful scenes of the 'men in the street'." .

(Cape Town, Purnell, 1972). Quarto, pictorial dustwrapper, lightly scuffed, pictorial endpapers, pp. xi + 177, illustrations, colour plates. Edges slightly marked. .

(Cape Town: Metz Press, 2000) 1875001433. 259 x 195 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 96, incl. index; lavishly illustrated with photographs of the dishes and of Cape Malay cultural life. Ever so slightly rubbed. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Cass Abrahams Kook Kaap-Maleis is 'n nuwe, uitgebreide uitgawe van die topverkoper, Die Kos en Kultuur van die Kaapse Maleiers. Elke hoofstuk is steed gekonstruktureer rondom een van die vele feeste wat die Kaapse Maleiers gereeld vier, met resepte van die spesiale disse wat vir spesiale geleenthede berei word. ... Kaap-Maleise kos is lank reeds gewild onder Suid-Afrikaners in alle kringe. Hierdie boek bevat resepte vir die ou gunstelinge, sowel as minder bekende, ewe smullekker disse wat tradisioneel op die tafels van die Kaapse Maleiers te vinde is." .

(London: Luzac & Company, 1983) 0718902599. 4to; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xi + (i) + 226, incl. index; maps; photographs; genealogical tables. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel and slightly rubbed; blank label over ink stamp on front pastedown; some spotting to endpapers and outermost leaves, occasionally also elsewhere. Very good condition. "It should be noted that this book covers nearly two and a half centuries of Kuwaiti history. The first two centuries, namely the eighteenth and the nineteenth, represent, to a certain degree, the lesser known and sparsely documented portion of that history, while the years from 1900 to the present are either fully documented or well served in twentieth century writings. ... Personal interviews - which constitute oral sources - held while the author was researching materials for this history in London, Bahrain, and Kuwait were used to corroborate written sources concerning the rise and rule… Read More

(Göttingen, Verlag der Witwe Vandenboeck, 3rd, improved, edition, 1767). Small octavo, contemporary calf, gilt compartments on the spine, rather scuffed and tired, pp. (xvi) + 344 + (6: Inhalt). No half-title-page, title-page detached, some foxing, heavier on some gatherings. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Author, the 'Father' of Statistics. .

(London: Chatto & Windus, 2000) 1856197166. 8vo; original grey boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. xxiv + 822, incl. index; plates; illustrations in text. Light foxing to edges. Very good condition. "Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so his LONDON is a 'biography' not a history. It differs from other histories, too, in the range and diversity of its contents. Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a chronological record. There are chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink. Anecdotal, brilliant… Read More

(Cape Town, 2nd impression, 1989). Large paperback, pictorial card wraps, pp. 80, photographic illustrations. 'The vibrant community of District Six, at the foot of Table Mountain, lives on in this personal memoir...' .

(Cape Town: Provincial Administration of the Cape of Good Hope, Department of Nature and Environmental Conservation, 1976). 216 x 143 mm; limp boards; no pagination; colour illustrations of 173 species; endpaper map. Ever so slightly rubbed; trace of foxing to endpapers. Very good condition. Bilingual text (English and Afrikaans). "This booklet dealing with the flowers of the Northern Cape is a further contribution towards publicising the rich and diverse flora of the Cape Province, which is claimed to be of the order of some 8000 - 10000 species. .

(London, Griffith Farran Browne & Co., no date, SABIB suggests [190-?]). 8vo; original decorative red cloth stamped in gilt, black and brown, rather rubbed and faded; corners bumped; pp. 384, frontispiece. Prize-label and past owner's discreet hand-stamp on front pastedown; scattered mild foxing. Boys' fiction after the G.A. Henty and Bertram Mitford formula. .

(London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1961). 8vo; original pictorial boards; endpaper map; pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. 146; colour frontis; plates. Earlier owner's tape repairs to edgeworn dustwrapper, which has some loss to bottom edge of lower panel; some fox spots to edges. Very good condition. "BORN FREE will always remain one of the great animal stories, as an account of a friendship between man and beast it is unsurpassed; but it is also unfinished. The continuation of George and Joy Adamson's relationship with Elsa, from the time of her mating with a wild lion until her cubs were a year old, is now described in LIVING FREE." .

(London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1960). First edition. 8vo; original pictorial boards; pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. 160; colour frontis; plates. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed, with some edge tears, and earlier owner's tape repairs; small patch of deletion fluid over name on front free endpaper. Good condition. "This book records the extraordinary relationship with a Kenya lioness established by the author over a period of four years, and still existing. There have been many, too many, 'pet lions' but none has ever before been returned to a wild life and still maintained its relationship with human beings. ... Perhaps never before over a similar period has the life history of an animal been documented in greater detail by hundreds of photographs, over one hundred of which form the illustrations of this book." .

(Scarborough: Scarborough FC Supporters Club, 2004). 206 x 145 mm; pictorial wrappers; unpaginated (but pp. 129); photographs of teams, games, players and programmes, some of which in colour. Very good condition. Uncommon. Scarborough Football Club, which enjoyed a period in the Football League between the late 1980s and late 1990s, was dissolved within a few years of the publication of this book, produced to coincide with the club's 125th Anniversary Season. A new club, Scarborough Athletic, which plays in the sixth tier of English football and retains the Seagull badge of Scarborough FC, continues the tradition. .

(London: Collins & Harvill, 1969). Large 8vo; pictorial boards; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 217 + (6); plates, incl. some in full colour. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed, with earlier owner's tape reinforcing and some tape marks to reverse; corners lightly bumped; trace of spotting to edges. Very good condition. 'Joy Adamson, known for her epic of ELSA, the Kenya lioness, has a new and fascinating animal story to tell. This time it is centred on Pippa, a cheetah given to her by a family who were leaving Kenya and wanted to find a good home for their pet. Mrs. Adamson determined to restore this great cat to its natural wild heritage, but the problem presented many difficulties, for hitherto no domesticated cheetah had ever consented to return to the bush.' .

(Johannesburg: Engineering Association / Department of Science & Technology, 2005). Title taken from slipcase. The individual volumes of the three-volume set are entitled: 1) The Hidden Edge: Quest for Progress; 2) The Leading Edge: Dividends of Democracy; 3) The Competitive Edge: Making Innovation Happen. Three 4to volumes, housed in a matching slipcase. Two of the books are hardcovers, with laminated pictorial boards, and corresponding dustwrappers; the third is of limp, laminated pictorial boards. Pagination: 1) pp. 244, incl. index; 2) pp. 256, incl. index; 3) pp. 104, incl. index. All three volumes lavishly illustrated. Short tear to head of spine panel in second volume's dustwrapper, else fine. "The Edge books tell the inspiring story of South Africa's scientific, technological and engineering achievements from the beginning of the last century to date. An award-winning journalist, leading photographers and a renowned designer have teamed up with two of South… Read More

(Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1972). Dustwrapper rubbed, pp. 425. Edges very slightly foxed. 'This book, written by a South African Jew and student of history, professes to be neither erudite nor exhaustive, but is intended to give the average reader an easy approach to a story that to many is almost completely unknown.' .

(Durban: Sponsored publication, 1998) 0620231920. 271 x 208 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 132; profusely illustrated. Wrappers partially sunned. Very good to near-fine condition. Richly illustrated series of essays and exhibition catalogue for the famous Zulu printmaker. "Azaria MBATHA's early, decorative linocuts and serigraphs are quite unlike any other example of the use of these techniques in SA. Despite the introduction of African symbols and local imagery, there is a decidedly Romanesque quality about his forms and composition and his narrative approach, which must stem either from the inspiration of objects in the Mission surroundings or the personal influence - conscious or otherwise - of his teacher, Peder Gowenius. Mbatha has nevertheless made the media - particularly lino - indisputably his own and has developed a style in which the character of the material is most effectively exploited." - Esmé Berman: Art & Artists of South Africa, p. 280 .

(Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1989) 086852039X. 8vo; original orange boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 220; photographic portraits. School reference library handstamp to pastedowns and title page; trace of spotting to edges. Very good condition. "The Companion is the latest and most complete reference work on South African literature and covers a period of almost two hundred years, from 1795 to 1986. The Companion includes articles on over 450 authors, journals, important works and composite articles on the following: African-language Literature; Africana; Afrikaans Literature; Anthologies; Awards and Prizes; Banned Books; Biography; Black Consciousness; Black Theatre; Boer War Writing; British Settlers of 1820; Censorship; Criticism; Dictionaries; Education; Expatriate Literature; Exploration; History; Humour and Satire; Libraries and Museums; New Black Poetry; Periodicals; Popular Literature; Press and Publishing; Prose Commentary; Short Stories; Translations and Zimbabwean… Read More

(London, Adlard & Son, Limited, 1938). Original red pebbled cloth, gilt, soiled, and with small stain on lower board, pp. 38 + (i) + 66. Some foxing throughout. .

(Pretoria, Department of Water Affairs, 1986) 0621110043. 300 x 210 mm; laminated pictorial boards; ten chapters, index, figures, tables, colour photographs, maps. Boards very slightly rubbed; sunned on spine; occasional light fox spot. Very good condition. "Chapters 1 to 9 provide an extensive background to water research management in the RSA and outline the DWA's policies and how they evolved. Chapter 10 provides a concise summary of the DWA's main objectives, policies and views on water management." .

(Pretoria, Department of Water Affairs, 1986). 300 x 210 mm; laminated pictorial boards; ten chapters, index, figures, tables, colour photographs, maps; very slight scattered foxing and browning. Very good condition. Please note that this book is heavy, and that postage will need to be charged accordingly. "Chapters 1 to 9 provide an extensive background to water research management in the RSA and outline the DWA's policies and how they evolved. Chapter 10 provides a concise summary of the DWA's main objectives, policies and views on water management." .